Stock market always move after the bond market. Bond market is way bigger and always missed by retail investors. The 10YR yield has reach it's long term resistance. I think funds are going to flow back into bonds. Forward guidance is going to be a choppy stock market. When u look at safe havens, there are only a few, from housing, govt bonds, cash and precious metals. Cash will deflate over time and precious metals is just a guessing game on sentiments. So money has not much safe havens to go.

I’ve worked with practically every trading strategy there is in the options market, including spread trades. I know a lot of people like to use spreads, and there are good reasons for them. The main reason they are not a primary part of my system boils down to simplicity. My best results have come by having fewer moving pieces in my trades, not more. I do a Bull Put credit spread trade as an alternative to LROS, for those of you who prefer to work with this type of spread. This is the most conservative type of credit spread trade you can work with, and it can be a reasonable way to limit your maximum loss.

I prefer a consistent, sustainable approach that can yield between 1.5% to 3% each and every month. That typically puts me on pace to make anywhere from 18% to 36% on an annualized basis, which is far ahead of what I would expect to make by using other “conservative” strategies like index or mutual fund investing, where fund managers are content to keep pace with a stock market that has averaged around 10% per year for the last 25 years. For your info,95% of fund managers do not beat the index.

My market and trading experience, I started my very first trade in in 2007 just before the market crash. I know how that feels like and I remember asking my dad why is he so calm and throwing more $$ in. I thought he was crazy, like all sons do anyway. I expanded my personal investing into options trading in 2012, and taught technical and fundamental investing techniques to so many investors.

Having done almost everything in the book, as mentioned, my best results have come by having fewer moving pieces in my trades, not more. Market price is something we can’t control. We focus on things we can control like risk mitigation and the defensive nature of options.

Remember your investment thesis when you first started, keep a investment journey log, and reflect years down. You will probably get what I’m trying to say with more experience. Experience is something you can’t study or buy. Have a good weekend while I'll be working at an event with lots of good looking people haha.

The problem is if you sell all your holdings and remain in cash, you would miss out on any potential future upside, dividends, takeovers at premiums, etc. What investors usually do after selling, is to buy back in at a higher level in fear of missing out on more upside and then find themselves buying right before the drop.

The issue with timing the market is that time in the market creates long term returns. If you miss out on just a few of the best days in the market, your long term returns are severely affected.

Source: Franklin Templeton Funds

If market timing is difficult and probably not something that 99.9% of the population can do, not even Warren Buffett or Ray Dalio do it, what can be done?

Here are three things everyone can do to increase long term returns:

Stay invested: By staying invested, you reap the long term rewards stocks offer, i.e. inflation protection, growth alongside the economy. These three things are the essence of investing because long term returns depend on them.

Add to your portfolio and reinvest: The benefit of constantly adding to your portfolio is that you are ready to buy throughout the cycle, which means that you will also buy at a low market point which is where you will find the highest returns.

Invest with no risk: The third thing you can do is to only invest in stocks or other asset classes that offer you your required return at no risk. For example, my required rate of return per year for stocks is at least 20% and I don’t invest in a stock if the return is lower. The no risk part means that in the long term, there is practically no possibility of permanent capital loss as sooner or later, the value of the investment will be recognized.

​Investing is something inherently easy, the only thing to do is find a few investments that offer a long term satisfying returns at low risk.